Christie is married and had a baby boy in 2005. Famed true-crime author, Ann Rule, provided an update on them by writing on her now defunct website: “Christie and Danny–who somehow survived their gunshot wounds–have no contact with Diane. Where Are Christie and Danny Now?įrom their wounds, Christie suffered a stroke that left with a speech impairment, and Danny got paralyzed from the waist down. He and his wife, Joanne, legally adopted the children in 1986. When she was asked who shot them, she replied with, “my mom.” After everything was said and done, and Diane was convicted, both Christie and Danny went to live with Fred Hugi, the lead prosecutor in the case. A year later, when Diane was arrested and put on trial, Christie, at just 9 years old, having just recovered her ability to speak, testified against her in court. And, by the time she took them to the hospital, Cheryl was dead.
On May 19, 1983, Diane shot the children – Cheryl, 7, Christie, 8, and Danny, 3 – multiple times at a close range. And, Cheryl Lynn, had reportedly told a neighbor of her grandparents that she was afraid of her mother. From Arizona to Oregon, the family had moved just shortly before the incident for Diane’s job in the U.S. Steve Downs, their father, actually left Diane in 1980 because he thought that Danny was the result of an extramarital affair that she had. They had another sibling, born in the middle, in 1976, Cheryl Lynn, but she didn’t survive the shooting.
If you’re here because you’re curious to know where the surviving children are now, you’ve come to the right place.Ĭhristie Ann, born in 1974, is the eldest of the Downs children, and Stephen Daniel, known as Danny, born in 1979, is the youngest. What’s fascinating, though, is to see how differently her children – including the fourth one, who she conceived after her original surviving ones were taken away from her – responded to her doings.
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